'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 19/04/12 18:50 did gyre and gimble: > 19.04.2012 00:16, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti: >> Hi, >> >> MythTV has (at last!) a new version out. I would like to include this in >> mga2. I appreciate it's late but as a leaf package I think it'll be safe >> enough. It'll be the version I'll likely be personally running here at >> home (as a backport) so I'd prefer it if that was the same one I was >> supporting generally. >> >> But it's not something I'm massively worried about generally, so if >> people have strong feelings please do make them known. >> >> I've already ported the mythtv package and the LAME patches. Will do the >> plugins one shortly (I'll need to do this anyway for my own needs so not >> wasted effort). >> >> Anssi, what do you think about including this in mga2? > > It indeed would be very late for such a change. > > But I would still probably side on the allowing side, due to the sum of > the following reasons (which are not reasons enough on their own): > - maintainer wants to include it and is running it himself anyway, so it > gets good testing and support > - MythTV has major releases very rarely (at least so far), but the > release branches seem to be supported for a long time (unless I > misinterpret their version numbers) > - bugs affecting the upgrade of the distribution are unlikely, since > this is a leaf package > - bugs affecting the installation of the distribution are unlikely, > since mythtv is not part of any default installation > - all bugs can still be fixed with /updates, and mythtv is not part > of any release media AFAICS > - we don't have /backports for providing this afterwards > > However, if other people are against this, I guess it is better not to > do it.
It seems that there has not been a chorus of disapproval, so I've committed and requested a push. Can still revert if someone steps in with a big objection. Right, I'm done with any freeze version exception requests. I'll be a good boy from now on :D (probably). Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
